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Your Top 5 Books

Post by Scott »

I think most of listed our favorite book in a different thread a while back, but I want to ask what are your top 5 favorite books.

Off the top of my head, here are mine:

1984 by George Orwell
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Animal Farm by George Orwell

(Please try to include both the book title and author name.)

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Post by sleepydumpling »

Hmmm...

Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Where the Heart Is - Billie Letts
The Silver Metal Lover - Tanith Lee
A Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps

The Eight Immortals of Taoism Legends and Fables of Popular Taoism; Translated and Edited by Kwok Man Ho and Joanne O'Brien

Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss, M.D.

1000 Years of Irish Poety The Gaelic and Anglo Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the Present; Edited by Kathleen Hoagland

The Library of World Poetry: Edited by William Cullen Bryant
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Post by Dori »

Although I haven't read enough to make a decent list, I did enjoy the following books immensely:

Les Miserables; Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame; Victor Hugo
The Scarlet Letter; Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Hobbit; J.R.R. Tolkien
The Agony and the Ecstasy; Irving Stone

I'm looking forward to reading Of Mice and Men and 1984 in my English class.
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Post by CollegeReader »

sleepydumpling wrote:Hmmm...

Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Where the Heart Is - Billie Letts
The Silver Metal Lover - Tanith Lee
A Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Kathy, you've mentioned Cloudstreet a few times before in posts ... I think I'm gonna have to check it out =)
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Oh how I love Cloudstreet! It's my favourite book of all time. Every time I read it I fall heartily in love all over again.

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Post by mikeyvang »

well these are the top 5 books i read its on the website so just check it out i hope u enjoy it...

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Post by Linda »

hmm...i can't pick just five books i've read in all but of the books i've read for school these would be my top six not five:

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
Beowulf
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
My Brother Sam is Dead by Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier
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When nietzsche Wept-Irvin Yalom
letters to a young poet- Rilke
Celestine Prophecy- James Redfield
Catcher and the Rye- Jd Salinger
Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
(and Chekhov's short stories- especially Anna on the Neck)
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Post by indigoaura »

Hi, everyone!! I'm new here...I've been lurking for the past couple months, but I decided I wanted to contribute to the discussions...

My top 5 include:
1. A Tale of Two Cities--Charles Dickens
2. La dama del alba (The woman of the dawn)--Alejandro Casona
3. To Kill a Mockingbird--Harper Lee
4. The Sunflower--Richard Paul Evans
5. Harry Potter--JK Rowling
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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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Post by Dori »

I'm not sure where to put this one, but I just read V for Vendetta (Alan Moore & David Lloyd). I just can't seem to 'demote' a book in my top 5 to add this one in. :?
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Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
The count of monte cristo - alexandre dumas jr.
d'artagnan and the three musketeers - alexandre dumas sr.
American gods - Neil Gaiman
the picture of dorian gray - Oscar Wilde
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Post by knightss »

oh man... this isn't easy.. i'm going to try to narrow it to 5 but i know i won't be happy with it.. it's so hard to choose:

Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut
Brave New World by Huxley
The Decameron by Boccaccio
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde

eesh.. that really wasn't easy.. i kept changing titles but i think i may be satisfied with this list.
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Post by Bader »

This is a hard choice for me as i like alot of books but here are five of the books that i couldnt put down until THE END.

1.The Saga of Recluse by Modesitt, L. E.
2.Magician By Feist, Raymond E.
3.Sea Beggars by Paul Kearney
4.The Sword Of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind
5.Legacy of the Drow by R.a. Salvatore
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